Archive for November, 2008

Nov 15 2008

"Phrase from Nearest Book" Meme

Published by Chris Rebert at 12:29 AM

Via a random blog on Planet Python: Grab the nearest book. Open it to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST. Here’s my fairly boring quote from [...]

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Nov 09 2008

xkcd is My Homecomic

Published by Chris Rebert at 1:56 AM

This is quite a bit belated, but about a month ago, on the way back to ERC from the Computer Science Engineering (CSE) building, I ran into a guy wearing the same shirt as me, specifically, the one based on this comic. He was talking on a phone as we walked each other. We looked [...]

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Nov 09 2008

The Military

Published by Chris Rebert at 1:30 AM

Apparently UCSD is located near a military base. I’ve seen and heard military jets and a group of Apache helicopters fly by a few times now. It’s kinda surreal, not to mention noisy. Not exactly something they mention in the promotional pamphlet :)

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Nov 08 2008

The Six Colleges of UCSD – A Ranking Guide for Applicants

Published by Chris Rebert at 10:41 PM

[Last updated: March 2010; Hi, College Confidential folks!] A friend of mine who’s currently applying to college recently asked me about which college of UCSD to apply to, not knowing that you don’t choose one but rather rank them. Anyway, in the interests of helping him and other future UCSD applicants, I’m writing this guide [...]

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